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Mechanical erosion of a material, or of the protective oxide layer on its surface From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Erosion corrosion is a degradation of material surface due to mechanical action, often by impinging liquid, abrasion by a slurry, particles suspended in fast flowing liquid or gas, bubbles or droplets, cavitation, etc.[1] The mechanism can be described as follows:
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The mechanism of erosion corrosion, the materials affected by it, and the conditions when it occurs are generally different from that of flow-accelerated corrosion, although the last one is sometimes classified as a sub-type of erosion corrosion.
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